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The WH kept the flag up while the whole country lowered it? If that is the case that is rock bottom low, my sincere sympathy to all American folks.

I would assume the reasonable and logical direction would be to make nicotine illegal not legalise opioids.

I hear you. Whats the local medical collective thing?

Why dont you try pot Moon, the worst than can happen to you is it wont help you and you’ll clean the fridge out. I feel for you man, I had 5 months of horrible neurological pain prior to my spine surgery, it was undbearable. I rhink it was Sun Tzu who said something along the lines of „If you know you can’t defeat your enemy try to befriend him” Be cleverer than the pain...

I’m not going to defend it, Im not basing it on any evidence. Im thinking that maybe abnormal behaviour and abuse experienced in childhood might end up in very strict stances later in adulthood...may it be abusing your own children or advocating for taking parents’s custody rights for spanking. Informative, thanks iNow. To set the record straight, Im not advocating for spanking children. I see mothers spank their children or treat them like rag dolls pulling by clothes, etc and its really sad and disturbing. Sure Sensei. I would love to see you ask my kid why he’s doing it. You can teach him how to read too while at it (he knows half of the alphabet and knows the concept of numbers btw) He doesn’t speak yet, only about 20-30 words and learns new ones every day. He’s 2 Lack of attention is one cause but 2 year olds tend to revolt against their parrents to test where the borders are, how far he can go...and thats what we’re experiencing. On top of it being irritsting its also very amusing as a stage in a small persons dvelopment. Man, you crack me up The „Pioneer amp” was not turned on, he likes dancing by the way, hes exposed to music very often and loves it, I used to make my life as a dj in late 90’s early 2000’s. That looks like 5 years old. My little lovely devil is 2 I play with him every day btw...I have other kids from previous marriage whom Im not able to see so I’m really into spending time with Peter. He reads individual letters and numbers plus he knows the concept of 1 car, 2 ice cream, 3 trucks, etc. As his dad, I ofcourse consider this as behaviour of a genius at 28 months

My partner and my Mom are experts at diversions, I'm learning from them and I'm becoming good at it too. It does work wonders. When I was 15 or 16 I stole money from my Dad's wallet and got hit on the face. I think that my Dad not only had the right to do that but it was his responsibility as a Father to do so (he actually came in appologizing to me a day later which I think was a mistake) Appart from that, I never experienced violence from my family. Having said that, I think hitting or smacking a 2 year old in any way is both useless and deplorable, a small kid like that will not understand that the punishment was an implication of him sticking his fingers into the outlet. Ofcourse an occasional smack in certain situations is something I consider ok with older kids. I presume people who are advocating zero tollerance for any kind of physical contact are the ones that may have been abused when they were children. Good points iNow. Looks like you know what youre talking about.

I came across the Portsmouth Ohio story today and since I wasn't following the opioid and prescription drug problems in the US I learnt quite a few interesting fact on the opioid epidemic in the US, the numbers are scary: "In a 2015 report, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stated that "overdose deaths, particularly from prescription drugs and heroin, have reached epidemic levels."[4]:iiiNearly half of all opioid overdose deaths in 2016 involved prescription opioids.[1] From 1999 to 2008, overdose death rates, sales, and substance abuse treatment admissions related to opioid pain relievers all increased substantially.[5] By 2015, there were more than 50,000 annual deaths from drug overdose, causing more deaths than either car accidents or guns.[6] "Drug overdoses have since become the leading cause of death of Americans under 50, with two-thirds of those deaths from opioids.[7] In 2016, the crisis decreased overall life expectancy of Americans for the second consecutive year.[8] Overall life expectancy fell from 78.7 to 78.6 years. Men were disproportionately more affected due to higher overdose death rates, with life expectancy declining from 76.3 to 76.1 years. Women's life expectancy remained stable at 81.1 years.[8]

Oh man I really did not want to hear that Good points though Stringy. I don’t have a problem with occupying him as much as possible, Im lazy and I have to force myself sometimes because I know its my job as a parrent. Most of the time its an awesome experience for both me and my son though, he’s actually unusually calm, clean and pedantic for his age, he knows numbers and letters and he’s extremely well developed socially for his age. I give all the credit to myself for that for providing him with the sense of security and love he needs The issue here is different though...there are times when a kid deliberately test you and occupying his attention will not work every time, confrontation is sometimes inevitable and I wonder if there are alternative views (which make sense) on establishing those borders or maybe those borders aren’t neccessary at all?

Okay so our 28 month old is driving us both nuts. He’s at an age where he’s testing us and we both agree that borders need to be established otherwise mayhem. He can literally throw a steel toy car at my Pioneeer amp 17 times untill I take the toy car from him and I’m sticking to not giving it back to him to try to establish the borders. At this point he’s entering the febrile spasm mode deliberately choking in agony which is fine by me, I’m sticking to not giving in. Analogous situations are happening a few times a day for the past 2 weeks or so and both me and my partner are basically in agreement about how to deal with it. My question is, what are/were your ways of dealing with these things? Do you think theres a more efficient alternative to how we are trying to deal with this?

First thought that came into my mind is the film “Contact” I think things might have a chance of going down like portrayed in that movie. Religious freaks sabotaging things, other people cooperating to make the contact, etc. We could be very much divided as a species as to how to react to such revelations. In fact, I think theres a good chance we could screw things up... in a nutshell, scientists would dress up to look all nice and beautiful for the new friends but Trump would send his space force to patrol the orbit and nuke anyone trying to come in or out. At least Mexicans would have it easier with Trump off their case.

One example would be because we don’t want to take away hope from a cancer patient for whom false hope can be soothing in his/her last days of life. Another example would be taking part in a funeral or a wedding where it wouldn’t be wise nor decent to advertise lack of evidence for god. Having said that, I do not entirely agree with iNow and Phi on this...I would keep my „mind open to god” only for the kind of reasons I listed. I did go to a wedding a few years ago and at the party after a few drinks I deliberately asked one of the folks if she got liver or ribbs when she received communion in the church. She didn’t get it (luckilly), one person spit his drink out got up and went outside - I now knew who I can talk to for the rest of the evening.

My philosophy in life is to find what I like to do and do it. The problem (or not) is it keeps changing.

Let me just leave the below 5 minute highlights of Dawkins speaking to (insert ad hominem). This is an example of what happens to ones mentality when exposed to religion instead of knowledge. Like Phi said, lets have that knowledge and be open to god (for being a decent person reasons) and not the other way around. Having hod in your heart without having knowledge renders that (insert ad hominem) from the film.

True.

As usual Dim, theres at least a hundred ways of interpreting what you say.

The same kind of people are convinced that without religion there can be no morality. I would suggest to them that instead of looking for a religion maybe its a better idea to gather knowledge on the questions they want answer to in other then religion areas of life. Afterall only knowledge can counter this level of ignorance and since the 17 year old is looking for alternatives at this age, it looks like he's going to be fine. It's the Dad I'm worrying about.

As much as you and RedBarron don't get it, in fact his contraption does generate some gravity. But it's not measurable...a small motor rotating will generate a force which mathematically could be expressed as gravitational pull but the values are miniscule beyond measurement and certainly beyond your comprehension judging by your previous posts in the other thread. This is complete nonsense. Present a model and stop coninuing a moronic subject which was closed by a mod.

Not really, they’re obviously interconnected and one is hard to regulate with implications coming from plausible regulations (which I already layed out) and the other is very difficult to regulate if not impossible. And I do think it matters in which country FB and other big players are conforming to the law.

Not FB, the internet.

Mmm, okay.

Could you do me a favour and please translate this into something my non primary English comprehension can comprehend?

I agree. The internet is constantly evolving, the legislators have no idea about how to approach creating effective laws and they never will - no one will. Change has a very short life span in the internet of things and laws won't be able to keep up. The only viable solution which will be effective is known since the begining of the web - pull the plug. But thats not going to happen because money. People seem to not notice that they're getting a bunch of perks with the data trade empires rulling the internet, all they see is the downsides (which are there ofcourse) Internet is instrinsically not possible to regulate effectively, if you constrain or cut one tentacle off, many more will grow in its place immune to the regulations. Apple, FB, Google, MS have their branches/farms in Asia or Ireland for tax reasons and local customers only but they're still based in the US and the majority of the boxes is not in Asia. Zuckerberg had to stand in front of the US Congress and sweat while he was interrogated. If they start pushing FB harder this will change and that would be a very bad thing. But they won't do it, it was easy to deduce from the interrogation that the Congress is sweating too.

@Ten oz Hint: He already speaks Mandarin comfortably.

Are you sincerely convinced that if Zukerberg moves his servers to Makau there will be more leverage for the US to take FB to court than now? You must be joking...

As I wrote in one of my previous posts, I think if the big players get pushed to the wall too much they will move their boxes to Asia which will cause the problem to be even more unsolvable and more serious. It looks like its beginning to happen. Would you preffer your data being kept on servers in Oregon or in a bunker in Makau ?